‘Dangerous Precedent’: Pentagon Now at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Ekaterina Blinova
SputnikNews.com
05.10.2016
It looks as if the Pentagon has taken over the reins of the US foreign strategy, Canada-based political scientist Oussama El-Mohtar told Sputnik, commenting on the disruption of US-Russian cooperation on Syria. According to El-Mohtar, this is a very dangerous precedent.
It looks as if the White House has yielded its decisions regarding Syria and its US-Russian relationship to the Pentagon until a new administration emerges, Oussama El-Mohtar, a Canada-based political scientist and author, told Sputnik, commenting on Washington’s decision to suspend cooperation with Moscow on Syria.
Pentagon Throws a Wrench in US-Russian Relations
“The disruption, as far as I can see, means one thing: given the disagreement between [Secretary of State] Kerry and the White House, the US administration has yielded its decisions regarding Syria and the overall confrontation with Russia to the Pentagon until a new administration emerges,” El-Mohtar noted in his interview with Sputnik.
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